Acclaimed British director Mike Leigh will be among the distinguished guests at Guadalajara’s 27th International Film Festival in March.

Naranjito Blues, a group, who until recently were too young to play in bars and instead played outdoors at Paseo Chapultepec, are now at both venues.

Jorge Wilmot, the ceramic artist said to have put Tonala on the map, died last week. He was 83 years old and reportedly suffered a heart attack in his sleep after years of declining health.

Leave it to young artists to make a statement about their convictions rather than produce commercially viable work.

The Compañia Universitaria de Opera and the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra will team up to present Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1791 opera “The Magic Flute” at Guadalajara’s Teatro Degollado.

Mexican actor Demian Bichir doesn’t have to bother celebrating his 2011 movie, “A Better Life.” Others are doing it for him.